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[Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 12:30 PM, klo uo <klonuo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm happy with Zim now, after tweaking some minor issues, and wanted to
> remove GTK from my Python packages, but first to create Zim executable.
>
> `python setup.py py2exe` is not enough, and I found in the past that the
> process of creating executables for large project is too complicated.
>
> Looking at Zim home page I see:
>
>> https://code.launchpad.net/zim
>> See build instructions in ./windows/README-BUILD-win32.txt
>
> But can't find anywhere that file nor simple instructions to follow and
> build Zim. Does such instructions exist? Or is there some simple guide how
> to build Zim executable on Windows?

They are there in the source tree, see
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jaap.karssenberg/zim/pyzim/view/head:/windows/README-BUILD-win32.txt

Probably you need to get a copy of the development tree to build it
for windows install bazaar and run "bzr branch lp:zim" and you get a
full copy of the tree.

Regards,

Jaap